Doctor Elasticus wrote:
>.....The symbolism of light is often applied to Christ in the NT,but for
specifically eternal light we should look to Isaiah 60, which is all
about light.....This is taken up in the Book of Revelation, or
Apocalypse:
Et civitas non eget sole, neque luna ut luceant in ea, nam claritas Dei
illuminavit eam, et lucerna eius est Agnus. (Rev. 21:23)
'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it;
for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.'>
Which immediately put me in mind of
http://www.willamette.edu/~anicgors/art359/soissons1.jpg
(with thanks to Ann M. Nicgorski)
from the spectacular early 9th c. "Soissons Gospels" which, in another
incarnation, I've actually held in my very own grimy little hands.
And which I pass on in charity for the benefit of those who might be
literarily challenged (not me of course) and in need a visual aid.
Best to all from here,
Christopher
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